Quotes About Ephemeral

I share the feeling with many that the appeal of scientific research is to open our minds to the amazement generated by progressive knowledge rather than to close our minds with an ephemeral sense of certainty.

Like Venice, Italy, this is a place of fleeting beauty. The knowledge that we won't be here long gives everyone an intense appetite for living.

Nas?l da canl?yd? hepsi. Nas?l da çabuk bitti rüya.

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

Go out dancing tonight, my dear, and go home with someone, and if the love doesn't last beyond the morning, then know I love you.

what happens to most of these people anyway? They have their fling and then they vanish. They have to take jobs eventually as telephone operators, bartenders, partners in a lamp shop in some little town in the San Fernando mountains… and others take their places… but mostly they just vanish, and you forget about them unless you hear, one day, a certain song.

I've been on a show before where I was on a billboard and then, after like three or four weeks, they took the billboard down and replaced it with nothing. Took my face down and put a white board up.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.

It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life.

I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.

It's always been kind of weird to me because when you give someone an autograph, you're looking down at a piece of paper and once you sign it the person moves on.

Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.

I think the best thing about a bubble is that it pops and is gone. That is what makes it so precious.

Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.

Jazz is there and gone. It happens. You have to be present for it. That simple.

Each day is a different length of time and that gives a different length to the cusp between light and darkness or darkness and light.

With a play, you do it and it's gone. Films always date. Television drama always dates. Television comedy, for some reason, seems to go on.

We've never been anti-permanence. We just belief deletion should be the default.

Ephemeral should be the default.

There's certainly nothing lasting and definite about the theater.

I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it is, and why we all make music if it doesn't last forever.

We existed moment to moment, never knowing who would be the next to leave this world.

It actually giggles at you as it goes by.